Developing a good news story
You can’t underestimate the power of a good story. A well told story can really grab the attention of your audience, capturing their imagination and influencing their perceptions.
You can’t underestimate the power of a good story. A well told story can really grab the attention of your audience, capturing their imagination and influencing their perceptions.
We understand that a membership organisation’s key goals are to engage with members, improve member retention, generate new membership enquiries and ultimately generate income to optimise their services.
CJAM took its marketing and online communications expertise to the UK’s biggest sell-out conference for senior association and membership professionals.
CJAM has welcomed a new press/communications specialist to join its team of dedicated business and marketing professionals.
Having been ignored for decades, apprenticeships are back for good. According to the government, ‘over 2.1m people have started apprenticeships this Parliament, with a six-fold increase in higher apprenticeships started since 2009-10’. The number is planned to increase and there’s an apprenticeship voucher scheme on the way, scheduled for roll-out in 2017. In yesterday’s Budget from Chancellor George Osborne, the apprentice wage went up by 57p an hour to £3.30 – equivalent to an annual salary increase of over £1,000 for a full time worker.
CJAM is strengthening its team with two senior appointments. Yvonne Lidgate joins as business development manager to help generate new business opportunities for CJAM’s marketing and association management clients, while Lucy French joins as Account Director to develop and lead creative, high impact marketing campaigns.
CJAM’s Managing Director Christine Joyce will be speaking at the Membership Excellence (MEMX) 2015 conference in London in March. Hosted by MemberWise, the popular one-day event will see associations and membership organisations from across the UK come together to learn and share best practice in successful membership development. CJAM will also be a key sponsor of the conference.
The Managing Director of leading Essex-based marketing agency CJAM is set to decide who will be crowned as Colchester’s ‘Business Man of the Year’. Christine Joyce, herself a winner of two ‘Excellence in Marketing’ awards, is sponsoring the prestigious award category to show support for the achievements of fellow Colchester businesses. She will review the entries, interview the shortlisted candidates and select the lucky winner, presenting him with his award at the Colchester Business Awards Ceremony in December. Joyce will also speak at the event about the qualities demonstrated by this year’s finalists and what it takes to be an entrepreneurial business leader.
The British Free Range Egg Producers Association have produced a comprehensive egg nutrition leaflet explaining the many valuable nutrients that can be found in just one free range egg.
Dubai’s dream of becoming a hub for international associations came a step closer to reality when various groups signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the Dubai Association Centre (DAC).